2026 SIEPR Economic Summit

Friday, March 6, 2026

• 8:30am - 9:15am PST

  Breakfast and Registration

• 9:15am - 9:30am PST

  Welcome Remarks

  • Neale Mahoney, SIEPR Trione Director, TG Wijaya Professor of Economics, Stanford University
• 9:30am - 10:15am PST

  Fireside Chat

  • Lip-Bu Tan, Intel Corporation
    • Moderated by John Shoven, former Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
• 10:15am - 11:20am PST

  Panel 1 - Leading Through Change: University Presidents on the Future of Higher Education

  • Rich Lyons, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jenny Martinez, Stanford University
  • Christina Paxson, Brown University
  • John Karl Scholz, University of Oregon
    • Moderated by John Hennessy, Alphabet Inc., former Stanford University President
• 11:20am - 11:30am PST

  Break

• 11:30am - 12:20pm PST

  Panel 2 - California Wealth Tax

  • Josh Rauh, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley
    • Moderated by Richard Rubin, Wall Street Journal
• 12:20pm - 1:15pm PST

  Lunch

• 1:15pm - 2:25pm PST

  Panel 3 - Monitoring the Economy in Real Time

  • Julia Coronado, MacroPolicy Perspectives
  • Heather Long, Chief Economist, Navy Federal Credit Union
  • Ernie Tedeschi, Stripe
    • Moderated by Jared Bernstein, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
• 2:25pm - 2:40pm PST

  Break

• 2:40pm - 3:30pm PST

  Fireside Chat

  • Mario Draghi, former Prime Minister of Italy (2021-2022)
    • Moderated by Jeanette Garretty, Robertson Stephens
• 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST

  Break

• 3:55pm - 4:45pm PST

  Panel 4: AI & the Economy

  • Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)
  • Chad Jones, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Erika McEntarfer, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
    • Moderated by Neale Mahoney, SIEPR Trione Director, TG Wijaya Professor of Economics, Stanford University
• 4:45pm - 6:00pm PST

  Reception